BASIC CONCEPTS

— When novelists claim they do not invent it, but hear voices and find stories in their head, they are neither joking nor crazy.

— When characters, narrators, or muses have minds of their own and occasionally take over, they are alternate personalities.

— Alternate personalities and memory gaps, but no significant distress or dysfunction, is a normal version of multiple personality.

— normal Multiple Personality Trait (MPT) (core of Multiple Identity Literary Theory), not clinical Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD)

— The normal version of multiple personality is an asset in fiction writing when some alternate personalities are storytellers.

— Multiple personality originates when imaginative children with normal brains have unassuaged trauma as victim or witness.

— Psychiatrists, whose standard mental status exam fails to ask about memory gaps, think they never see multiple personality.

— They need the clue of memory gaps, because alternate personalities don’t acknowledge their presence until their cover is blown.

— In novels, most multiple personality, per se, is unnoticed, unintentional, and reflects the author’s view of ordinary psychology.

— Multiple personality means one person who has more than one identity and memory bank, not psychosis or possession.

— Euphemisms for alternate personalities include parts, pseudonyms, alter egos, doubles, double consciousness, voice or voices.

— Multiple personality trait: 90% of fiction writers; possibly 30% of public.

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Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Autobiography, Pseudonyms, Multiple Personality: Title pages that omit the author’s real name may be a sign that the author has multiple personality.

When the title page of an autobiography—by a famous author or anyone who is best known by a pen name or pseudonym of any kind—omits the person’s real name, most readers don’t give it a second thought.

But they should, since autobiographies are nonfiction, and when you read nonfiction, the least you have a right to expect is that the title page will give the author’s real name.

For example, the title page of “The Autobiography of Frank Richards” (search recent posts) did not give the author’s real name, Charles Hamilton. Why didn’t it? Because, psychologically speaking, it was not written by Charles Hamilton. It was written by his Frank Richards alternate personality.

In short, whenever the title page of an autobiography omits the author’s real name, it may be a sign of multiple personality. This is not, by itself, proof of multiple personality, but should make you wonder.
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